Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked ...

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Written By: John Cannon

This volume examines the truth behind Britain's modern monarchy. It looks at the full extent of the battle for power of various dynastic groups, in particular Lord Louis Mountbatten's ruthless scheming to make Britain's ruling family the House of Mountbatten; the abdication of Edward VII; the truth behind the notorious Anthony Blunt and his connection with the royal family; the cover-up ...

Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
Written By: Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Stephen Prior

Manufacturer: Phillimore & Co.
Written By: T. X. F. Pantcheff

The story of Manchester is no ordinary piece of local history. For the past two hundred years and more, the city's development has been inextricably entwined with the rise and fall of the nation's fortunes and, to no small extent, those of the British Empire. Manchester has been at the cutting edge of the changes - technological, social, economic and political - that transformed our domestic ...

Manufacturer: Phillimore & Co.
Written By: Stuart Hylton

The world is a vast graveyard; our ancestors are all around us, a human link between past and present. Every year many burials are excavated in the course of building work or archaeological research - possibly of a medieval monk found boxed up below a herbacious border, or a couple of 4000-year-old skulls discovered deep beneath the Yorkshire Dales. In this book, based on two television series, an ...

Manufacturer: BBC Books
Written By: Julian D. Richards

Cardiff was a small town of less than 2,000 people until the development of its docks in the 19th century. Then began a period of rapid expansion. From 1875 onwards, as the city grew, it absorbed its outlying districts. This book concentrates on the varied and fascinating history of these suburbs which are today part of the capital of Wales. Dennis Morgan offers a concise account of the ...

Manufacturer: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd
Written By: Dennis Morgan

Cardiff: Those Were The Days! is different from Brian Lee's previous two books - Cardiff Then and Now and Memory Lane Cardiff - in that it focuses more on people and less on places. But that is not to say that some of the well-known, but sadly lost landmarks of this historic city have been ignored. The reader will come across many hitherto unpublished pictures of Cardiff, which is just a couple of ...

Manufacturer: Breedon Books Publishing
Written By: Brian Lee

This is a pioneering study of the genetic, personal and political effects of hemophilia on the British royal family, eatablishing for the first time the part it played in bringing about the Russian revolution, the fall of the Spanish royal family and Hitler's rise to power. The authors, widely respected scientists who have been involved in DNA testing of bones, trace the history of the hemophilia ...

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
Written By: D.M. Potts

This book identifies all past and present holders of British peerages--Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons--and is the first such work to be arranged in one continuous alphabetical sequence by both titles and surnames. So, it is a quick and convenient means of discovering whether or when a peerage existed, the surname of the individual who held or continues to hold it, his ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Francis L. Leeson

49 Bankside is an 18th century house; the last survivor of what was once a long ribbon of houses overlooking the Thames. Rich with anecdote and colour, with celebrities from history, as well as ordinary people, this is social history at its most enjoyable.From the Hardcover edition.

Manufacturer: Pimlico
Written By: Gillian Tindall